I speak, of course, of Garry's Mod videos, non-serious Source Filmmaker projects, and anything else relating to the strange collection of Source Engine based madness, especially on YouTube.
My personal take on it is that it surprises me how much it works, like, you think it would stop being funny after a while, but then someone finds a new animation technique, or makes an obscure game or film reference, or otherwise replenishes the randomness pool, and it somehow works again. To be honest, I rather wish more non-machinima films were like this, not so much like silly Flash animations, but more like true Stop-Motion and Pixilation works with that sort of oddball humor.
If you absolutely hate Gmod videos, that's fine -- it's not everyone's cuppa -- but I'd like to see whether anyone agrees that the sort of surrealism in 3D could go elsewhere, or even if it has already. I've seen Terry Gilliam's surrealistic animations, and a few experimental films as goofy as some of the tamer Gmod works, but I could always see more.
My personal take on it is that it surprises me how much it works, like, you think it would stop being funny after a while, but then someone finds a new animation technique, or makes an obscure game or film reference, or otherwise replenishes the randomness pool, and it somehow works again. To be honest, I rather wish more non-machinima films were like this, not so much like silly Flash animations, but more like true Stop-Motion and Pixilation works with that sort of oddball humor.
If you absolutely hate Gmod videos, that's fine -- it's not everyone's cuppa -- but I'd like to see whether anyone agrees that the sort of surrealism in 3D could go elsewhere, or even if it has already. I've seen Terry Gilliam's surrealistic animations, and a few experimental films as goofy as some of the tamer Gmod works, but I could always see more.
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